WO - I pulled it as it was a duplicate.
On the question of why the USMC ConOps is relevant to the UK, at one level WO is clearly right - the UK is going to do its own thing, and I'm sure that the RN will wring every last ounce of capability out of whatever (flawed) tools they get.
However, where the USMC ConOps are relevant is if they are sufficiently internally contradictory that when the US comes to make defence cuts post the 2013 Presidential Inauguration (something likely under either Romney or Obama, irrespective of what Romney is currently saying), then it makes it more likely that cancelling Dave-B can be credibly portrayed as something other than a cost driven decision.
And without CVF converted, the UK would have "issues".
Hence my interest in the USMC ConOps.
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